“Never before have so many people understood so little about so much.”
James Burke (science historian) (1936) British broadcaster, science historian, author, and television producer
Connections (1979), 10 - Yesterday, Tomorrow and You
“The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.”
— Banksy
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